Feature Request: Shutdown remote server after disconnect

[t1u1]

After disconnecting from a remote, it would be good to shutdown remote servers automatically. These services consume several Gigs of RAM, so it isn't ideal to have them running around for long.

If there was a way to configure the shutdown period, that would be nice. Then people who need the servers lingering can keep a high timeout value. While those who would like to conserve memory on the remote can set a lower timeout.

[vs-code-engineering]

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[joshspicer]

Thanks for the idea. This kind of action might be better performed by the user outside of Remote - SSH extension (I am assuming from context you're using that extension). You didn't mention what platform you are on, but here's an idea on linux on how you could accomplish what you're looking for.

[t1u1]

Indeed, I am using Remote-SSH extension, and logging into a minimal but persistent Linux container.

Killing the remote server in an outside script has the problem that if a user logs out from a terminal session, it might kill a server that is still connected to VSCode.

[t1u1]

It looks like #440 achieves the same thing as this request (with a small timeout). If so, you can close this issue.

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[vs-code-engineering]

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